Top 10 Signs You Are A Die Hard Omega

[Wolfman]

(Disclaimer:These are stories told to me or about me. I don't necessarily share these views!)

I think of myself as a student of human behaviour. One thing that interests me about BGLOs is the stereotypes that get played dwon in public but which people ascribe to nonetheless as a folk reality. A few stories.

I went to a Kappa smoker in college. The Province Polemarch of my area at the time was from my home town and he went to school with my mom. And the 2dn Vice Province Polemarch was a high school classmate. They were there. They gave presentations. I will never forget that the province Polemarch, a very affable and professional man, lost his "Kappa Kool" when he someone asked him about Omega. he said with an ever so slight hint of animosity that "he would not want his son to be an Omega." I knew no Ques, had no Greek relatives, only knew a high school friend who was an Alpha and his brother who would pledge Alpha that year. The only thing I had heard about Omega was negative. I thought that response was a bit mean-spirited and small-minded, given that he was representing his fraternity in an official capacity. I recently met his Kappa son and we hit it off.

A brother in a grad chapter I was a member of in Southern Cali once told the bruhs that he had to have a talk with his son once, who was in college at the time. His son's roomate was a Sigma, and the circle of friends he hung with were Sigmas. So, when the son came home for a vacation break he sat him down and had a man to man talk with him. He told his son: "If you pledge Sigma, don't come home!" He was serious as a heart attack! (He didn't think too much of Sigma! His son is still not Greek;he's was scared to pledge Omega on his campus. He respects Omega greatly though.

A younger Delta friend, whose mother is die-head DST and her father, a Nupe, told me that her father said that if she married an Omega, he would not walk her down the aisle. (The last boyfriend she had was a Que.

Back in the mid-'80s I met a bruh at a district meeting whom his undergrad chapter bruhs told me about. He was made in the '70s and it was a different day when the "light skinned male" was in vogue. Anyway, he fit this phenotype, the putative Kappa phenotype: tall, handsome, light skinned, curly hair. And the black women on the venerable white Southern campus were smitten with him. The bruhs told me that one time when was walking on the campus a car load of sisters driving by saw him and were so trying to get his attention that they wrecked the car. The bruhs jokingly told these girls that he is a Que, not a Kappa! This bruh is a surgeon now.

I used to teach on a foreign language at seminary Alma Mater. I had husband and wife who were in one of my classes. They were 1.5 generation Korean Americans. When she found out that I was a Que she couldn't believe it. She said: "you're one of those bulldogs." The husband later told me of a conversation that they had had. He said that she told him that I "acted like an Alpha." We laughed about this!

[FeeFee]

Originally posted by jojapeach
*sitting "crisscross applesauce" on the storytime rug*

I am LOVING this! I even get to learn while I'm having fun. LOL Thank you for the stories, Wolfman.

I've got cookies and juice if anyone likes.

Wolfman, you're about to become our very own resident storyteller.

[FeeFee]

Originally posted by FeeFee
I've got cookies and juice if anyone likes.

Wolfman, you're about to become our very own resident storyteller.

Dear Wolfman,

We need our story fix. Thank you kindly.

[Wolfman]

A personal story that I've told to Frats and some others, which means a lot to me.

To this day I cannot explain why I pledged, like many other very important things in my life. I got involved with some guys who wanted to do this and I went for it. I cannot explain my particular motivation. Now, I say serendipity, or better, Divine Providence. Since the most important thing that has ever happened to me, my Christian conversion, happended at age 17, everything else has had to fir with in that grid of worldview and being, including the Fraternity.

Among the things we were required to do while "on line" was have a party. We organized one at an off-campus party spot. It was designed as basically a keg party. It was very aweel attended by African American students on my 98% caucasian campus and many football players, who were the teammates of many of my LBs. More importantly for us, there were visiting Ques there, to check us out and "mess with us" a bit. Some of this happened at the party in full view of the party goers. One one occasion, one visiting Que stopped and talked to me "off the record," not as "Lamp. He told me things that I would need to know as Que! I've never forgotten these things; for now I believe that God used him to speak to me. He told me two things: 1) you will meet brothers who you'll not like and 2) the Fraternity is "religious."

The first truth is something that everyone joining a Greek-Letter org, church, club,etc. should come to terms with;for we are in a fallen world and we are dealing with fallen humanity(myself included!). Sometimes we can be shattered by the revelation that there are crooks, immoral, unfriendly, and selfish people whom we call brother or sister. Any time you'll dealing with human beings, you'll have some "mess." Maturity and a knowledge of our comman humanity and the grace and love of God, means that we see beyond this and seek to live out the lives we've sworn by sacred oath to uphold. It's the ideals that matter, and our efforts in God to live them out that matter, and on this journey you'll meet people who do reflect these God-inspired ideals.

The second truth is that the Fraternity is not just about people partying, stepping, carousing, cahsing women, etc. The roots of the Fraternity are deeply and inextricably Christian. This is something that is lost or obscured on many young brothers and,moreover, is something pushed to the side in our materialistic and narcissistic age we live in. As it says in the Omega Psi Phi entry in Baird's Manual, the essential bonds and foundations of the Fraternity were (and are!) religion, culture and tradition. This is something that I experienced when I read the Ritual fully in the summer after my initiation, and what I've experienced amongst the men of Omega. That "word" has been a blessing on my Omega sojourn. I see this as a part of my journey in Christ, something that God used to grow and shape me a s a man and as a human being.

As in the words of the second stanza of the Lampados Hymn, written by the late Rev. Reginald Daniels, which will forver be indelibly etched in my soul:"God give unto us great courage, give us faith and make us strong; that we who are within the band may not fail as we go 'long. Keep the soldiers of this army moving, guided by Thy hand. May we march across the desert and enter Dear Omega's Land." My the LORD's name be praised and be glorified!

[blueGBI]

*sits crisscrossed*

I'm not a D9 greek but I love these stories and the nuggets of wisdom in them. It's so obvious how much you love Omega Psi Phi, Wolfman!

[DoggyStyle82]

Older Bruhs:

1) you know them by their regal yet friendly bearing

2) or they keep their viagra prescription updated for every district and conclave.

3) Omega commencement speakers always get the bruhs hyped before they address the audience.


Young Bruhs:

You wear the same ripped frat shirt and grass stained camo's for all 3 days of a weekend roadtrip.

You wear your dog collar to your lb's wedding

You don't know the words to the Sweetheart Song but you know five different hops to "Atomic Dog"

Your chapter sets out hops at graduation to the amusement/bewilderment of the caucasian parents

[dyhardque]

I am definitely guilty of some of those

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by dyhardque
I am definitely guilty of some of those

Long time no see Stranger. Welcome back.

[dyhardque]

Glad to be back

[dyhardque]

Or should I say ROO!!!!!

[Reds6]

I love these and I'm passing them on to my Que honey.
BTW, I love the stories Wolfman, but another thing to add to the list Bruhs ALWAYS have stories! My Bruh (that's what we'll call him) and I sat in a car for 2 hours while he told me Bruh story after Bruh story and I loved it especially since he has 25 years in the frat.

[FeeFee]

Originally posted by Reds6
I love these and I'm passing them on to my Que honey.
BTW, I love the stories Wolfman, but another thing to add to the list Bruhs ALWAYS have stories! My Bruh (that's what we'll call him) and I sat in a car for 2 hours while he told me Bruh story after Bruh story and I loved it especially since he has 25 years in the frat.

My boo shared some Omega stories with me a few weeks ago and I was sitting there CTHU @ every last one of them, lol.

[Reds6]

Originally posted by FeeFee
My boo shared some Omega stories with me a few weeks ago and I was sitting there CTHU @ every last one of them, lol.

Do most of them include fighting? LOL

[FeeFee]

Originally posted by Reds6
Do most of them include fighting? LOL

Surprisingly, no, LOL. I'm sure he has witnessed a fight or two, but just didn't tell me about them.

[DoggyStyle82]

Originally posted by Reds6
Do most of them include fighting? LOL

How about everyone knows a Bruh with a Napoleon complex. The chihuahua Bruhs always got the pitbull mouths when they know bigger bruhs will bump for them when they start some stuff, lol